yanwaa

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɟaŋwaː]

Noun

yanwaa (possessed yanwaadü)

  1. (Caura River dialect) male human being, man
  2. (Caura River dialect) male cross-cousin (of a woman)

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “yanwaa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, pages 92, 110, 456
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “danwa”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “danwa”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • The template Template:R:mch:Monterrey does not use the parameter(s): 
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